05 We hear “Follow your bliss,” and think the Hero’s Journey is a joy ride. The bliss is “joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.” If you can stand in the tension of that contradiction, you have met the only requirement for the journey. Joseph Campbell said, “Where you stumble and fall, there liesContinue reading “October 27, 2020”
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October 26, 2020
04 Too many of us do not have time to be quiet, to sit quietly, listening, looking, waiting for something, they know not what. All of the important things occur to us in the silence. On the toilet. In the shower. The bathroom is the most meditative friendly room we are ever in. Take advantageContinue reading “October 26, 2020”
October 25, 2020
03 There is no place to get to, nothing to achieve, no destination or end point of the process. Enlightenment is not a steady state of being. There are no steady states of being. Whether even death is or is not remains to be seen. Enlightenment is a process. Illumination is the realization that enlightenmentContinue reading “October 25, 2020”
October 24, 2020
04 It takes active participation with– intentional identification with– the center and ground of our original nature, our life and being, to live in accord with the Tao– doing things in the right way, at the right time, in aligning ourselves with rhythms and movement of nature’s energy moving through and directing our lives. OurContinue reading “October 24, 2020”
October 23, 2020
02 Wealth, power and privilege seem to have it all, until we see how it interferes with seeing what needs to happen in each situation as it arises, and doing it with the gifts at our disposal. Buying it done won’t do it, when our destiny is calling us to step forward and rock theContinue reading “October 23, 2020”
October 22, 2020
03 The most important thing is to be right about what’s important, and do it when it needs to be done, the way it needs to be done, for as long as it needs to be done in each situation as it arises, with sincerity and spontaneity, without contrivance, judgment or opinion, situation-by-situation, day-by-day forContinue reading “October 22, 2020”
October 21, 2020
04 Happiness is a natural by-product of doing the things that make our little heart sing and our little toes dance. Having our heart in what we are doing is all there is to it. How hard could that be? When is the last time your heart was in what you were doing? Why didContinue reading “October 21, 2020”
October 20, 2020
03 We all are the same, and we all are different. Why can’t we take that on faith, and live as though it is so? We take the craziest things on faith. “There is no such thing as global warming!” Why take that on faith? “COVID-19 is a hoax!” Why take that on faith? “IfContinue reading “October 20, 2020”
October 19, 2020
03 Allowing our life to take its own shape around our interests and our involvement with things that evoke our vitality, zeal and enthusiasm is a track different from going where the money is– and we have to make a decision at some point about what is going t0 be the central concern that directsContinue reading “October 19, 2020”
October 18, 2020
04 Shamanism, you could look this up, is the world’s oldest religion starting up between 10,000 and 5,000 BCE. Hinduism and Taoism come in next from about 5,000 to 2,500 BCE. From at least 2,500 BCE Taoism is documented as saying “It all comes down to doing the right thing in the right way” (orContinue reading “October 18, 2020”
October 17, 2020
04 Joseph Campbell, speaking about his college days on the tract team at Columbia, “I lost two races that were very important to me because I lost the still place. The race meant so much that I put myself out there to win the race instead of to run the race, and the whole thingContinue reading “October 17, 2020”
October 16, 2020
–0– 02 If we want to see, we have to see that we are not seeing. And then, we have to see what we are not seeing. We do that best by sitting quietly. Silence is the source of The Source, and the threshold to all seeing/knowing, doing/being. It all begins with silence, and proceedsContinue reading “October 16, 2020”
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